{"id":437,"date":"2012-07-11T16:00:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T23:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mii.ucla.edu\/causality\/?p=437"},"modified":"2012-07-11T16:00:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T23:00:20","slug":"summer-greetings-from-the-causality-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/11\/summer-greetings-from-the-causality-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer-Greetings from the Causality Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear friends in causality research,<\/p>\n

This communication highlights a few meetings in the summer of 2012, that should be of interest to causality researchers. Naturally, these are biased in favor of those that were brought to my attention. If you know of more such meetings, feel free to post.<\/p>\n

1.
\nJuly 22-26, 2012, Toronto, Canada
\nAnnual Conference of the Association for Advancement of
\nArtificial Intelligence, AAAI-12,
\n<\/strong>http:\/\/www.aaai.org\/Conferences\/AAAI\/2012\/<\/a><\/p>\n

I will present a lecture on “The Mechanization of Causal Inference, a Mini Turing-Test and Beyond”`
\nhttp:\/\/www.aaai.org\/Conferences\/AAAI\/2012\/aaai12turing.php<\/a>
\nand Elias Bareinboim will present a completeness result for the transportability problem.
\nhttp:\/\/ftp.cs.ucla.edu\/pub\/stat_ser\/r390.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

2.
\nJoint Statistical Meeting
\nJSM 2012, San Diego, CA, July 28-Aug 3, 2012
\n<\/strong>There are 73 papers and meetings on causal inference listed in the program, here they are: http:\/\/www.amstat.org\/meetings\/jsm\/2012\/onlineprogram\/KeywordSearchResults.cfm<\/a><\/p>\n

These include a day-long course on Targeted Learning: Causal Inference for Observational and Experimental Data<\/strong>
\nCE_08C Sun, 7\/29\/2012, 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM HQ-Indigo E
\nby Maya Petersen, Sherri Rose, Mark van der Laan, http:\/\/www.amstat.org\/meetings\/jsm\/2012\/onlineprogram\/AbstractDetails.cfm?abstractid=304318<\/a><\/p>\n

And J. Pearl tutorial “Causal Inference in Statistics: A gentle introduction<\/strong>” Sunday, July 17 4-6pm http:\/\/www.amstat.org\/meetings\/jsm\/2012\/onlineprogram\/AbstractDetails.cfm?abstractid=304318<\/a><\/p>\n

—————An Interesting Observation ——
\nIn 2002, JSM-2002 had only 13 papers on causal inference, By any gauge, 73 is a positive sign of progress in the field.
\n—————end of interesting observation ——<\/p>\n

3.
\nUAI2012, Catalina, CA, August 15-17, 2012
\n(Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence)<\/p>\n

<\/strong> Workshop on Causal Structure Learning, Aug. 18
\nhttp:\/\/www.stat.washington.edu\/tsr\/uai-causal-structure-learning-workshop\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Alison Gopnik will speak on “Babies, Brain and Bayes (Banquet Speech), Thursday, Aug. 16.,
\nand I will speak on “Do-Calculus Revisited” Aug. 17, 1:30 pm
\nhttp:\/\/www.auai.org\/uai2012\/invited.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n

4.
\nWorkshop on Networks Processes and Causality<\/strong>
\nSept 3-6, 2012, Menorca, Spain
\nhttp:\/\/people.tuebingen.mpg.de\/networks-workshop\/<\/a><\/p>\n

5.
\nMLSP 2012 Special Session on Causal Discovery
\nIEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2012)<\/strong>
\nSeptember 23-26 2012, Santander, Spain
\nhttp:\/\/mlsp2012.conwiz.dk\/index.php?id=3D62<\/a><\/p>\n

6.
\nSymposium on Causal Inference, University of Michigan,<\/strong>
\nDecember 12, 2012. Contact: Professor Yu Xie.<\/p>\n

Miscellaneous<\/strong>
\n7.
\nLarry Wasserman has a new blog, and dedicated a page to befriending “causality”.
\nhttp:\/\/normaldeviate.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/18\/48\/<\/a><\/p>\n

8.
\nA new book “Causality: Statistical Perspectives and Applications”,
\nC. Berzuini, P. Dawid and L. Bernardinelli (Eds.) <\/strong>
\nhas just been published by Wiley (Chihester) July 2012: see
\nhttp:\/\/eu.wiley.com\/WileyCDA\/WileyTitle\/productCd-0470665564.html .<\/a><\/p>\n

Perpetual online access to the book is available on:
\nhttp:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/9781119945710.fmatter\/summary<\/a><\/p>\n

9.
\nAnother new book appeared this month
\n R.H. Hoyle (Ed.) Handbook of Structural Equation Modeling, New York: Guilford Press. <\/strong>
\nIt contains my chapter on “The Causal Foundations of SEM”
\nttp:\/\/ftp.cs.ucla.edu\/pub\/stat_ser\/r370.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

10.
\nFinally, the UCLA fruit basket offers a few fresh items, see http:\/\/bayes.cs.ucla.edu\/csl_papers.html<\/a>
\nOne item of interest to economists-educators is:
\nChen and Pearl “A Critical Examination of Econometrics Textbooks,”<\/strong> where we survey six influential econometric textbooks in terms of their mathematical treatment of causal concepts. The conclusions are revealing, if you click on http:\/\/ftp.cs.ucla.edu\/pub\/stat_ser\/r395.pdf (And if you have ideas on reforming econometric education, please share.)<\/p>\n

Wishing you an insightful and productive summer
\nBest,
\nJudea Pearl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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